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I disagree, there is a lot of design that still feels quite modern, especially within furniture (Dieter Ram’s famous shelving system holds up quite well for instance). If you go for a timeless style it’s usually the technology limitations (size for the product for instance) that gives away the design.

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I meant design within software is always going to feel dated eventually, because we don't have finalized hardware products like Ive's and Rams's products.

There isn't really an idea of software design that's extricable from the viewport, and that what I mean is going to make it look dated eventually.

And that "Regalsystem" is from 1960. Claude Garamond's typeface from ~1550 [1] still is the high standard for book typefaces. This is excellent design.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Original-CG.gif

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